:: Daft Punk has released a limited edition remixes album worldwide to iTunes, without warning. Human After All (Remixes), also featuring Basement Jaxx, Peaches and Justice, was first released in Japan in 2006. [HarderBloggerFaster]

:: Morrissey has been dropped by Capitol/Harvest, just weeks after the release of World…

:: First week sales of Robin Thicke’s Paula in Australia look bleak, more so than in the US and UK. The album failed to chart in the ARIA Top 500, meaning that it sold less than a Blondie compilation at #500 with just 54 copies sold. Oof. [NME]…

:: George Michael was rushed to hospital last week due to an unexplained illness. His representative refuses to comment apart from saying that he was getting routine tests. Sounds a little fishy… but get well soon! [Radio.com]

Ten years after his last studio album, Patience, George Michael is back with Symphonica. It isn’t exactly the buoyant return to bouncy, slightly-sleazy pop we’d all been hoping for; rather, George worked with late, famed producerPhil Ramone to transform his orchestral 2011-12 tour of the same name into a consumer-worthy package.

It’s been ten years since George Michael released his fifth studio album Patience. It was geared to be his “comeback,” considering he hadn’t created any original music in almost ten years prior to Patience. A lot has happened since then. He’s toured, and toured some more, continued his activism, randomly dropped a track…

Terence Trent D’Arby’s touching 1993 ballad “Let Her Down Easy” has been covered by George Michael for the lead single off the latter’s Symphonica (out March 17), and the beautiful, piano-driven track now has an equally gorgeous video to go with it. Michael paired up with director Vaughn Arnell for the clip, who was behind such…

Good news for fans of all things orchestral and all things George Michael: The singer will be back with a crooner-worthy album of covers, both standards and re-worked versions of his own tunes, next month. Titled Symphonica (out March 17), the album’s lead single is “Let Her Down Easy,” originally a moving 1993 tune by…

George Michael will release a new live album, Symphonica, on March 17. The 14-song set features orchestral rearrangements of his own hits, plus select covers (Roberta Flack’s “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face,” Trent D’Arby’s “Let Her Down Easy,” Elton John’s “Idol”) that were recorded during his 2011-2012 tour of the same name.

:: George Michael has canceled a string of Australian dates so that he can get treatment for anxiety stemming from a 2011 health scare. The 49-year-old Brit spent three weeks in the hospital last November during a bout with pneumonia. [Entertainment Weekly]

:: Trey Parker and Matt Stone — creators of The Book Of Mormon — floated out Justin Bieber’s name as the dream lead for their musical’s eventual film adaptation. The duo has previously made fun of Bieber in their animated series South Park. It’s also worth noting that it’s usually…

It’s hard to believe summer’s winding down and Labor Day is upon us already, but there’s no need to despair! In the spirit of the holiday — the point of which is to recognize and celebrate the average working stiff — we’ve rounded up a marathon of classic videos by artists who have done their…

During NBC’s telecast of the London Olympics closing ceremony, Ryan Seacrest called the Spice Girls’ performance the worst-kept secret of the all-star A Symphony Of British Music concert. And thankfully, many of the previously-rumored artists actually turned up to the extravaganza. (One exception was Adele, who was whispered to be making an appearance, but wound…

Been wondering who will be performing at this Sunday’s A Symphony Of British Music closing ceremony concert at the London Olympics? Our handy Who’s Who guide of both rumored and confirmed artists should have given you a few tips, but now some of those rumored crooners from across the pond have been officially revealed to…

This coming Sunday, the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London will officially come to an end as London Mayor Boris Johnson hands the Olympic flag over to Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes and the torch that was lit during the opening ceremony on July 27 is extinguished. But naturally the Games Of The XXX…

When Amy Winehouse died on July 23, 2011, at the age of 27, some called the tragedy “unavoidable”. Whether or not you agreed with that particular sentiment, you can’t deny that on that day one year ago, music lost one of the most unique and soulful voices of our time. Russell Brand said it best i…

Last month George Michael announced his new single “White Light” by noting the following on Facebook: “On the 29th of June this year it will be 30 years to the day that ‘Wham Rap’, my first single, written with Andrew Ridgeley (on an afternoon that the two of us should have been at school!), entered…